Archive for the ‘Sciences’ Category

Fibonacci Numbers Pt I

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The Shallow Diagonals of Pascal’s Triangle. (more…)

POV-Ray Research Pt I

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Some useful links / web addresses and tools for POV-Ray.

http://www.povray.org (more…)

POV-Ray rendering code for the ‘Timecrystal’

Friday, February 1st, 2008

This is the code for rendering the ‘Timecrystal’ using PovRAY.

You will need to include the colours, finish, glass and starts inc files.

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Magic Squares

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Definition:
A magic square is an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to n^2 (n-squared) in an ‘n x n‘ matrix, with each number occurring exactly once, and such that the sum of the entries of any row, any column, or any main diagonal is the same (known as the ‘Magic Constant’).

The ‘Magic Constant’ (or sum of the entries) can be arrived at by applying the following equation:

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HTML Colour Chart

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Below is a color chart of web colors. Showing the color given by HEX value and using the ‘Name’.

Not all browsers render these colors by name, you should check how the color displays in the final column to see if your chosen color works.

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Argus C3 - 3D

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Here’s a couple of versions of the Argus C3 camera rendered using POV-Ray.

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